Stir all dry ingredients except cheese together in a medium bowl; once well-combined, stir in the cheese.

Mix all wet ingredients together in a 2 cup glass measure til well blended. Mix dry and wet ingredients together thoroughly, scraping sides and bottom of bolw, and let sit for 5 minutes. Divide evenly into 12 muffin top pan wells. Spread to fill the pan wells. Top each with about a heaping teaspoon of the cherry pie filling - I leave some of the gloppy stuff behind and try to concentrate on getting 3 or 4 cherries on each Danish.

Bake at 350* for about 15 minutes, til the batter is set and turning golden brown.

Let cool in the pan 10 minutes, then carefully remove to a rack to finish cooling. I find a plastic spatula helps get them out of the pans - loosen around the edges first, then run spatula gently under the Danish.

To ice - beat together the softened cream cheese, sweetener, vanilla, and enough cream to make an icing consistency. You don't want it too runny but not so thick that you can't pipe it out either. Spoon into a sandwich baggie, snip off a TINY corner, twist the icing down into the bottom of the baggie and pipe onto the Danish.

Makes 12.

You could use no sugar added pie filling in whatever flavors you like. I have some apple, which I'll try next, and some peach too. They're not easy to find but I got the cherry and apple at WalMart, their Good Value brand, and the peach from Netrition, I believe it's Steel's brand.

I'm also gonna try this with some SF jam, thinned out with a bit of water, one time soon!

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Charski, I have found you can get a terrific glaze to zigzag like that just using powdered erythritol and water too. I totally agree on the "make it in a bag and pipe it" technique. it really fancies things up!

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This looks soooo good! I need to get me some brown sugar sub. Diabetisweet. That's the only ingredient I don't have on hand. Would adding a little blackstrap molasses to regular diabetisweet do the job?

This looks soooo good! I need to get me some brown sugar sub. Diabetisweet. That's the only ingredient I don't have on hand. Would adding a little blackstrap molasses to regular diabetisweet do the job?

I don't see why not!

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Stir all dry ingredients except cheese together in a medium bowl; once well-combined, stir in the cheese.

Mix all wet ingredients together in a 2 cup glass measure til well blended. Mix dry and wet ingredients together thoroughly, scraping sides and bottom of bolw, and let sit for 5 minutes. Divide evenly into 12 muffin top pan wells. Spread to fill the pan wells. Top each with about a heaping teaspoon of the cherry pie filling - I leave some of the gloppy stuff behind and try to concentrate on getting 3 or 4 cherries on each Danish.

Bake at 350* for about 15 minutes, til the batter is set and turning golden brown.

Let cool in the pan 10 minutes, then carefully remove to a rack to finish cooling. I find a plastic spatula helps get them out of the pans - loosen around the edges first, then run spatula gently under the Danish.

To ice - beat together the softened cream cheese, sweetener, vanilla, and enough cream to make an icing consistency. You don't want it too runny but not so thick that you can't pipe it out either. Spoon into a sandwich baggie, snip off a TINY corner, twist the icing down into the bottom of the baggie and pipe onto the Danish.

Makes 12.

You could use no sugar added pie filling in whatever flavors you like. I have some apple, which I'll try next, and some peach too. They're not easy to find but I got the cherry and apple at WalMart, their Good Value brand, and the peach from Netrition, I believe it's Steel's brand.

I'm also gonna try this with some SF jam, thinned out with a bit of water, one time soon!

I knew I would have to make more than 6 in the muffin top pan(1T. cream cheese mix in each), so I made 4 in a regular muffin pan and added the extra cream cheese mix to the top of those.
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Thanks for this recipe too drj..!!!

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Char - I'm having friends in for coffee next week and made some blueberry muffins; but now I think they may stay in the freezer and I'll make these. They look awesome! Great recipe, thanks for sharing!

I made them...and I love them. They are good!! I made them with cream cheese fillling...and I think I did ok, considering I don't have a muffin top pan!! I did leave out the water in the recipe...I was afraid they would run all over...but they worked out fine! I plan to put a teaspoon of sf jam on the top also...Thanks Char!! Here are some pictures: